1. Old Testament
Ezekiel and Daniel
© John Stevenson, 2012

2. Ezekiel
The Prophet-Priest

3. Oracles against Nations
Ezekiel
1 - 24
Oracles against Judah
Oracles against Nations
Oracles of Salvation
Ezekiel’s call (1-2)
Judgment (3-7)
Temple (8-11)
Judgment (12-14)
Pictures (15-19)
Judgment (20-23)
Pictures (24)
Amon
Moab
Edom
Philistia
Tyre
Sidon
Egypt
Watchman (33)
Restoration (34-37)
Gog & Magog (38-39)
New Temple (40-48)

4. Amos Josiah Jeremiah Daniel Ezekiel Babylonian Captivity
Jehoahaz
Jehoiachin
Amos
Josiah
Babylonian Captivity
Zedekiah
Jehoiakim
Jerusalem & Temple Destroyed
Joel?
Obadiah?
Jeremiah
Daniel
Habakkuk
Ezekiel
Fall of
Nineveh

5. Ezekiel’s Chariot Vision
Something like glowing metal in the midst of the fire (1:4).
Four living beings
Wheels within wheels

6. 1 Chronicles 28:18
...the altar of incense refined gold by weight; and gold for the model of the chariot, even the cherubim, that spread out their wings, and covered the ark of the covenant of the LORD

7. Daniel 7:9
I kept looking Until thrones were set up, and the Ancient of Days took His seat; His vesture was like white snow, and the hair of His head like pure wool. His throne was ablaze with flames, its wheels were a burning fire

8. Meaning of the Vision
God is the God over all life, whether wild animals or domesticated animals or birds of men
The wheels are a picture of the mighty power of God.

9. The Glory of the Lord
Ezekiel sees the glory of the presence of the Lord within His temple (8:4).
The glory of God is seen at the doorway to the temple (9:3).
It next leaves the doorway and moves out to the Eastern Gate (10:18)

10. The Glory of the Lord
It moves completely out of the city of Jerusalem: And the glory of the LORD went up from the midst of the city, and stood over the mountain which is east of the city (Ezekiel 11:23).

11. Oracles against Nations
Ezekiel
1 - 24
Oracles against Judah
Oracles against Nations
Oracles of Salvation
Ezekiel’s call (1-2)
Judgment (3-7)
Temple (8-11)
Judgment (12-14)
Pictures (15-19)
Judgment (20-23)
Pictures (24)
Amon
Moab
Edom
Philistia
Tyre
Sidon
Egypt
Watchman (33)
Restoration (34-37)
Gog & Magog (38-39)
New Temple (40-48)

12. Ezekiel 26:1-3
Now in the eleventh year, on the first of the month, the word of the LORD came to me saying, 2 “Son of man, because Tyre has said concern-ing Jerusalem, ‘Aha, the gateway of the peoples is broken; it has opened to me. I shall be filled, now that she is laid waste,’ 3 therefore thus says the Lord GOD, 'Behold, I am against you, O Tyre, and I will bring up many nations against you, as the sea brings up its waves.”

13. Tyre 

16. Ezekiel 26:4
They will destroy the walls of Tyre and break down her towers; and I will scrape her debris from her and make her a bare rock.

17. Ezekiel 26:5
“She will be a place for the spreading of nets in the midst of the sea, for I have spoken,” declares the Lord GOD, “and she will become spoil for the nations.”

18. Ezekiel 26:7-8
For thus says the Lord GOD, “Behold, I will bring upon Tyre from the north Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, king of kings, with horses, chariots, cavalry and a great army. 8 He will slay your daughters on the mainland with the sword; and he will make siege walls against you, cast up a ramp against you and raise up a large shield against you.”

19. Ezekiel 26:9-10
The blow of his battering rams he will direct against your walls, and with his axes he will break down your towers. 10 Because of the multitude of his horses, the dust raised by them will cover you; your walls will shake at the noise of cavalry and wagons and chariots when he enters your gates as men enter a city that is breached.

20. Ezekiel 26:12
Also they will make a spoil of your riches and a prey of your merchandise, break down your walls and destroy your pleasant houses, and throw your stones and your timbers and your debris into the water.

21. Alexander the Great of Macedonia, 332 B.C.
Tyre 

22. Seven month siege
Fall of Tyre on July B.C.

23. The Vision of Dry Bones
Ezekiel 37

24. Ezekiel 37:1-2
The hand of the LORD was upon me, and He brought me out by the Spirit of the LORD and set me down in the middle of the valley; and it was full of bones. 2 He caused me to pass among them round about, and behold, there were very many on the surface of the valley; and lo, they were very dry.

25. Ezekiel 37:11-12
Then He said to me, “Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel; behold, they say, ‘Our bones are dried up and our hope has perished. We are completely cut off.’ 12 Therefore prophesy and say to them, 'Thus says the Lord GOD, “Behold, I will open your graves and cause you to come up out of your graves, My people; and I will bring you into the land of Israel.”

26. Ezekiel 37:13-14
“Then you will know that I am the LORD, when I have opened your graves and caused you to come up out of your graves, My people. 14 I will put My Spirit within you and you will come to life, and I will place you on your own land. Then you will know that I, the LORD, have spoken and done it,” declares the LORD.

27. Ezekiel’s Vision John’s Revelation
A Temple within the City
The New Jerusalem
Ezekiel is taken in this vision to a very high mountain (40:2)
John is carried in the Spirit to a great and high mountain (21:10)
A man uses a rod to measure the dimensions of the temple (40:5-ff)
An angel measures the city with a rod (21:15-17)
The entire temple area is a perfect square (42:15-20)
The entire city is a perfect cube (21:16)

28. Ezekiel’s Vision John’s Revelation
A Temple within the City
The New Jerusalem
The presence of the glory of the Lord enters the temple (43:3-4)
No need of sun or moon because the Lord illumines His city (22:5)
No foreigner is admitted into the temple (44:9)
Nothing unclean and no unbeliever is allowed into the city (21:8, 27)
A river of water flows out of the temple (47:1)
A river of the water of life comes from the throne of God (22:1)

29. Ezekiel’s Vision John’s Revelation
A Temple within the City
The New Jerusalem
There are a total of 12 gates around the city (48:30-34)
There are 12 gates to the city (21:21)
The name of the city shall be: “The Lord is there” (48:35).
The throne of God shall be there (22:3)

30. Ezekiel 43:4-5
And the glory of the LORD came into the house by the way of the gate facing toward the east. 5 And the Spirit lifted me up and brought me into the inner court; and behold, the glory of the LORD filled the house.

31. Daniel
Statesman-Prophet

32. The Prophet of Social Justice
Return
from
Exile
Amos
Babylonian Captivity
Kings of Judah
Jerusalem & Temple Destroyed
Joel?
Zephaniah
The Prophet of Social Justice
Daniel
Jeremiah
Habakkuk
Obadiah?
Ezekiel

33. Daniel 1:1
In the third year of the reign of Jehoiakim king of Judah, Nebuchad-nezzar king of Babylon came to Jerusalem and besieged it. 2 And the Lord gave Jehoiakim king of Judah into his hand, along with some of the vessels of the house of God; and he brought them to the land of Shinar, to the house of his god, and he brought the vessels into the treasury of his god.

34.  Carchemish
 Babylon
Nebuchadnezzar
 Jerusalem
Pharaoh
Neco

35.  Carchemish
 Babylon
Nebuchadnezzar
 Jerusalem
Pharaoh
Neco

36. Seven Historical Narratives Four Prophetic Visions
Overview of Daniel
1:1
8:1
Written in the Third Person
Written in the First Person
Seven Historical Narratives
Four Prophetic Visions

37. Features of the Book
Partially written in Aramaic

38. Seven Historical Narratives Four Prophetic Visions
Overview of Daniel
1:1
8:1
Written in the Third Person
Written in the First Person
Seven Historical Narratives
Four Prophetic Visions
Hebrew
Written in Aramaic
Written in Hebrew
Prologue
Prophetic History relating to the Gentiles
Prophetic History relating to the Jews

39. Features of the Book Partially written in Aramaic
Emphasis on the Kingdom
Emphasis on Prayer
The Spiritual Battle

40. Daniel and Ezekiel

41. Nebuchadnezzar’s Babylon

43. Daniel 1
A Commitment to Purity

44. Daniel 1:8
But Daniel made up his mind that he would not defile himself with the king's choice food or with the wine which he drank; so he sought permission from the commander of the officials that he might not defile himself.

45. Daniel 1:19
The king talked with them, and out of them all not one was found like Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael and Azariah; so they entered the king’s personal service.

46. Daniel 1:20-21
As for every matter of wisdom and understanding about which the king consulted them, he found them ten times better than all the magicians and conjurers who were in all his realm. 21 And Daniel continued until the first year of Cyrus the king.

47. Dream of image of the four kingdoms (2)
Rescue of Daniel’s friends from the fiery furnace (3)
Nebuchadnezzar’s dream of the tree Daniel’s interpretation Nebuchadnezzar’s humiliation (4)
Belshazzar’s handwriting on the wall Daniel’s interpretation Belshazzar’s death (5)
Rescue of Daniel from the lion’s den (6)
Night vision of the four beasts (7)

48. Vision of a great statue
Daniel 2
Meaning
Daniel 7
Vision of a great statue
Kings & Kingdoms
Vision of beasts from the sea
Head of fine gold
Babylon
Lion with wings
Breast & arms of silver
Medes & Persia
Bear with three ribs in its teeth

49. Babylon

50. Medes
Babylon
Persians

51. Vision of a great statue
Daniel 2
Meaning
Daniel 7
Vision of a great statue
Kings & Kingdoms
Vision of beasts from the sea
Head of fine gold
Babylon
Lion with wings
Breast & arms of silver
Medes & Persia
Bear with three ribs in its teeth
Belly & thighs of bronze
Greek Empire
Leopard with 4 wings & 4 heads

52. Alexander the Great

53. Vision of a great statue
Daniel 2
Meaning
Daniel 7
Vision of a great statue
Kings & Kingdoms
Vision of beasts from the sea
Head of fine gold
Babylon
Lion with wings
Breast & arms of silver
Medes & Persia
Bear with three ribs in its teeth
Belly & thighs of bronze
Greek Empire
Leopard with 4 wings & 4 heads
Legs of iron & clay; ten toes
Antiochus?
Rome?
Beast with iron teeth & ten horns

54. Daniel 2
Meaning
Daniel 7
All previous kingdoms destroyed by the stone cut without hands
Coming of the Lord and His Kingdom
Ancient of Days takes his seat and passes judgment
A new kingdom that will never be destroyed (2:44)
His kingdom will be an everlasting kingdom (7:27)

55. Lessons from Daniel 7
Earthly power in and of itself degenerates into brutality.
It is the tendency of brutality to increase.
Restoration is an act of God, not of man.

56. Dream comes in the first year of Belshazzar king of Babylon
Daniel 7
Daniel 8
Dream comes in the first year of Belshazzar king of Babylon
Vision given in the third year of the reign of Belshazzar the king
Successive beasts rise up out of the ocean
Babylon
Medes & Persia
Greece
Other Kingdom
A ram standing by a canal is attacked by a goat coming from the west
Medes & Persia
Greece
Terrible beast has ten horns
Large horn broken; gives way to ten horns

57. Daniel 7 Daniel 8 Out comes a small horn that… Out comes a small
Pulls up three previous horns
Utters great boasts
Alterations in times and law
Wages war against saints and wins against them
Grows exceedingly
Magnifies itself against heaven
Removes regular sacrifice & throws down the temple
Flings truth to the ground

58. Daniel 7
Daniel 8
Saints are given into his hand for a time, times, and half a time
Endures for 2300 mornings and evenings
Then sovereignty, dominion, and greatness are given to the saints of the Most High
Then the holy place will be properly restored

59. Daniel 11:2
And now I will tell you the truth. Behold, three more kings are going to arise in Persia. Then a fourth will gain far more riches than all of them; as soon as he becomes strong through his riches, he will arouse the whole empire against the realm of Greece

60. Daniel 11:3
And a mighty king will arise, and he will rule with great authority and do as he pleases.

61. Daniel 11:4
But as soon as he has arisen, his kingdom will be broken up and parceled out toward the four points of the compass, though not to his own descendants, nor according to his authority which he wielded; for his sovereignty will be uprooted and given to others besides them.

62. “To the strongest!”

63. Daniel 11:5
Then the king of the South will grow strong, along with one of his princes who will gain ascendancy over him and obtain dominion; his domain will be a great dominion indeed.

64. Seleucus
Ptolemy

65. Daniel 11:6
And after some years they will form an alliance, and the daughter of the king of the South will come to the king of the North to carry out a peaceful arrangement. But she will not retain her position of power, nor will he remain with his power, but she will be given up, along with those who brought her in, and the one who sired her, as well as he who supported her in those times.

66. Seleucus Ptolemy Antiochus IV Hostage in Rome Escape Appointments in
Judah
Ptolemy

67. Antiochus imposed the following regulations
Jews could not assemble for prayer
Observance of the Sabbath forbidden
Possession of the Scriptures illegal
Circumcision was illegal
Dietary laws illegal
Pagan sacrifices mandated

68. Seleucus
Maccabean Revolt
166 B.C.
Mattathias
Temple liberated
Ptolemy

69. Daniel 11:29-30
At the appointed time he will return and come into the South, but this last time it will not turn out the way it did before. 30 For ships of Kittim will come against him; therefore he will be disheartened and will return and become enraged at the holy covenant and take action; so he will come back and show regard for those who forsake the holy covenant.

70. Daniel 11:31
And forces from him will arise, desecrate the sanctuary fortress, and do away with the regular sacrifice. And they will set up the abomination of desolation.

71. Antiochus Epiphanes Comes on the heels of Alexander’s generals
Magnifies itself against the Jews and against their God
He puts a stop to the sacrificial system and makes alterations to the Law
He attempts to overturn the truth of the Scriptures
He has power over the nation of Israel

72. Antiochus Epiphanes
His sway over the Temple endures for approximately 3 and a half years (2300 mornings and evenings).
Then the holy place is ultimately properly restored

73. Daniel 12:1
Now at that time Michael, the great prince who stands guard over the sons of your people, will arise. And there will be a time of distress such as never occurred since there was a nation until that time; and at that time your people, everyone who is found written in the book, will be rescued.

74. “A time of distress…”
Abomination of Desolation brought by Antiochus Epiphanes in 168 B.C.
Destruction of the Temple brought by Titus in A.D. 70
The Final Judgment

75. Daniel 12:2
And many of those who sleep in the dust of the ground will awake, these to everlasting life, but the others to disgrace and everlasting contempt.

76. Daniel 12:4
But as for you, Daniel, conceal these words and seal up the book until the end of time; many will go back and forth, and knowledge will increase.

77. The Prophecy of the Seventy Weeks
Daniel 9

78. Daniel 9:1-2
In the first year of Darius the son of Ahasuerus, of Median descent, who was made king over the kingdom of the Chaldeans-- 2 in the first year of his reign, I, Daniel, observed in the books the number of the years which was revealed as the word of the LORD to Jeremiah the prophet for the completion of the desolations of Jerusalem, namely, seventy years.

79. Daniel 9:3
So I gave my attention to the Lord God to seek Him by prayer and supplications, with fasting, sackcloth and ashes.

80. Daniel 9:4-5
I prayed to the LORD my God and confessed and said, “Alas, O Lord, the great and awesome God, who keeps His covenant and lovingkindness for those who love Him and keep His command-ments, 5 we have sinned, committed iniquity, acted wickedly and rebelled, even turning aside from Your command-ments and ordinances.”

81. Daniel 9:6
“Moreover, we have not listened to Your servants the prophets, who spoke in Your name to our kings, our princes, our fathers and all the people of the land.”

82. Daniel 9:20-21
Now while I was speaking and praying, and confessing my sin and the sin of my people Israel, and presenting my supplication before the LORD my God in behalf of the holy mountain of my God, 21 while I was still speaking in prayer, then the man Gabriel, whom I had seen in the vision previously, came to me in my extreme weariness about the time of the evening offering.

83. Daniel 9:24
Seventy weeks have been decreed for your people and your holy city, to finish the transgression, to make an end of sin, to make atonement for iniquity, to bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal up vision and prophecy and to anoint the most holy place.

84. Seventy Sevens To finish the transgression To make an end of sin
To make atonement for iniquity
To bring in everlasting righteousness
To seal up vision and prophecy
To anoint the most holy place

85. Daniel 9:25
So you are to know and discern that from the issuing of a decree to restore and rebuild Jerusalem until Messiah the Prince there will be seven weeks and sixty-two weeks; it will be built again, with plaza and moat, even in times of distress.

86. Daniel 9:26
Then after the sixty-two weeks the Messiah will be cut off and have nothing, and the people of the prince who is to come will destroy the city and the sanctuary. And its end will come with a flood; even to the end there will be war; desolations are determined.

87. Author Bible Date Decree Cyrus Ezra 1:1-4 539
Jews allowed to return & rebuild temple
Darius
Ezra 6:8-12
520
Jews allowed to complete the temple
Artaxerxes
Ezra 7:11-28
457
Ezra brings another return
Artaxerxes
Neh. 1
445
Nehemiah allowed to rebuild walls

88. Date for giving the decree
The Dates and the 483 Years
Date for giving the decree
Plus 483 years
Cyrus
Ezra 1:1-4
539
56 B.C.
Darius
Ezra 6:8-12
520
37 B.C.
Artaxerxes
Ezra 7:11-28
457
27 A.D.
Artaxerxes
Neh. 1
445
39 A.D.

89. Maccabean Interpretation
605 B.C.
62 Weeks (434 Years)
171 B.C.
Middle of 70th week temple desecrated by Antiochus IV
First fall of Jerusalem
7 Weeks (49 Years)
Murder of High Priest
538 B.C. Temple to be rebuild
587 B.C. Temple destroyed

90. ( ) Dispensational Interpretation 69 Weeks (adapted years) 70th Week
444 B.C.
70th Week (
Church Age )
2nd Coming of Christ
Order to rebuild walls of Jerusalem
Rapture
Crucifixion of Christ

91. Historical Interpretation
457 B.C.
70th Week
69 Weeks
Jerusalem destroyed
First order to rebuild walls of Jerusalem
Beginning of ministry of Jesus

92. For we are slaves; yet in our bondage our God has not forsaken us, but has extended lovingkindness to us in the sight of the kings of Persia, to give us reviving to raise up the house of our God, to restore its ruins and to give us a wall in Judah and Jerusalem. (Ezra 9:9).

93. Daniel 9:26
Then after the sixty-two weeks the Messiah will be cut off and have nothing, and the people of the prince who is to come will destroy the city and the sanctuary. And its end will come with a flood; even to the end there will be war; desolations are determined.

94. Daniel 9:27
And he will make a firm covenant with the many for one week, but in the middle of the week he will put a stop to sacrifice and grain offering; and on the wing of abominations will come one who makes desolate, even until a complete destruction, one that is decreed, is poured out on the one who makes desolate.

95. Construction: From the issuing of a decree to restore and rebuild Jerusalem
Messiah: …until Messiah the Prince
Construction: …it will be built again
Messiah: Messiah will be cut off
Anti-messiah: …and the people of the prince who is to come
Destruction: …will destroy the city and the sanctuary; desolations are determined
Messiah: He will make a firm covenant with the many for one week
Destruction: He will put a stop to the sacrifice and grain offering

96. Therefore when you see the abomination of desolation which was spoken of through Daniel the prophet, standing in the holy place (let the reader understand), 16 then those who are in Judea must flee to the mountains.
(Matthew 24:15-16)

97. Whoever is on the housetop must not go down to get the things out that are in his house. 18 Whoever is in the field must not turn back to get his cloak. 19 But woe to those who are pregnant and to those who are nursing babies in those days! 20 But pray that your flight will not be in the winter, or on a Sabbath.
(Matthew 24:17-20)

98. For then there will be a great tribulation, such as has not occurred since the beginning of the world until now, nor ever will.
(Matthew 24:21)

99. “...the entire nation was now shut up by fate as in a prison, and the Roman army encompassed the city when it was crowded with inhabitants. Accordingly, the multitude of those that therein perished exceeded all the destructions that either men or God ever brought upon the world.” (Wars of the Jews 6:9:4).